well yes you can import data from excel files, then you can use a script to search it , im not sure how to import the excel data but i searched 'import excel to phpmyadmin' and it came up with some answers.

well yes you can import data from excel files, then you can use a script to search it , im not sure how to import the excel data but i searched 'import excel to phpmyadmin' and it came up with some answers.

im really eager to learn it, since it'd most likely lead me into a promotion at work, and help my future projects.

I mainly learn from trial and error, but i'm a little worried since i've been hearing about sql injections, and am not sure how to avoid that happening to me... so i try to avoid learning sql

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might want to pick up this book called 'mysql phrasebook' i hve it and i think its a good type of book for trial and error people, its just snippets of code for different things you want to do with short explanations. its handy for most basic things you will want to do like searching